he Battle of Ulai is well known because of the relief carvings
found in Ashurbanipal's palace in Ninevah. These chaotic images portray the
torture and death of countless enemy soldiers. The severed head of Teumman
can be found in nearly every panel including the panel depicting the king's
victory banquet. This is consistent with the Assyrian propaganda "which
urges viewers to be both fearful and in awe of Assyrian might".[8]
Wikipedia
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(bi-gil)v. tr. be-guiled, be-guil-ing, be-guiles. 1. To
deceive by guile; delude. See Synonyms at deceive. 2. To
take away from by or as if by guile; cheat: a disease that has
beguiled me of strength. 3. To distract the attention of;
divert: "to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming"
(Abraham Lincoln). 4. To pass (time) pleasantly. 5. To amuse or charm; delight.
See Synonyms at charm.[Middle English bigilen : bi-, be- + gilen, to deceive.
See GUILE.]--be-guile'ment n. --be-guil'er n. --be-guil'ing-ly adv.
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wise1
(wiz)adj. wis-er, wis-est. 1. Having wisdom or discernment
for what is true, right, or lasting; sagacious: a wise
leader. 2. Exhibiting common sense; prudent: a wise
decision. Shrewd; crafty. 3. Having great learning; erudite. 4.
Provided with information; informed. Used with to: was wise to the politics of
the department. 5. Slang. Rude and disrespectful; impudent.
--phrasal verb. wise up. Slang. To make or become aware, informed,
or sophisticated.[Middle English, from Old English wis. See weid-.]--wise'ly
adv. --wise'ness n.
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He was a mighty
hunter before the Lord:
wherefore
it is said,
Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before
the Lord.
And the
beginning of his kingdom was Babel,
and Erech,
and Accad,
and Calneh,
in the
land of Shinar.
Out of that land went forth Asshur,
and builded Nineveh,
and the city Rehoboth,
and Calah,
And Resen
between
Nineveh and Calah:
the same is a great city.
*************
Simeon and Levi
are brethren;
instruments
of cruelty
are in their
habitations.
O my soul,
come not thou
into
their secret;
unto their assembly,
mine
honour,
be not thou united:
for in their
anger
they
slew a man,
and
in their
selfwill
they
digged
down a wall.
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There
was in the days of Herod,
the king of Judaea,
a certain priest named Zacharias,
a Son of Moses
*
And the anger of the Lord
was kindled against
Moses,
and
he said,
Is not Aaron
the
Levite
thy brother?
I know
that
he
can speak well.
And also,
behold,
he
cometh forth to meet thee:
and
when he seeth thee,
he
will be glad
in his
heart.
*
and his wife
was of
the
daughters of Aaron,
and her name
was
Elisa-bethsheba.
*
For
I
know him,
that he
will command
his children
and his
household
after
him,
and they shall keep
the
way of the Lord,
to do
justice
and judgment;
*
And thou
shalt teach
them
ordinances
and laws,
and shalt shew
them
the way
wherein
they
must
walk,
and the
work
that
they
must do.
**
And they
were both
righteous
before God,
walking
in all
the commandments
and ordinances
of
the Lord blameless.
And
they
had no child,
because
that Elisa-bethsheba
was barren,
and
they
both were
now
well stricken in years.
**
Now
the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief
fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and
their officers that served the king in any matter of the
courses,
which came in and went out month by
month throughout all the months
of the year,
of
every course were twenty
and
four thousand.
**
And it came
to
pass,
that while he
executed the priest's
office
before God
in the
order
of
his course,
According to the custom
of the
priest's office,
**
Bring no more vain oblations;
incense
is an
abomination
unto me;
the new moons and
sabbaths,
the calling of assemblies,
**
lest we
be scattered
abroad
upon the face
of
the whole earth.
*
I
cannot away
with;
it is
inequity,
even the solemn
meeting.
*
his lot
was to burn incense
when he went into
the temple
of
the Lord.
And the whole multitude of the people were
praying
without
at
the time
of
incense.
And there
(Nineveh)
appeared unto him
an angel
of
the
Lord
standing on
the
right
side of the
altar of incense.
And when Zacharias saw him,
he
was troubled,
and fear fell upon him.
But the
angel said unto him,
Fear not,
Zacharias:
for thy prayer is heard;
and thy wife
Elisa-bethsheba
shall bear
thee a son,
and thou shalt call
his name
Elisha.
And thou shalt have joy
and gladness;
and many shall rejoice
at
his birth.
For he
shall be great
in the
sight
of
the Lord,
and shall drink neither
wine
*
Woe unto them
that are
mighty
to
drink wine,
and men of strength
to mingle strong drink:
Which justify
the
wicked for reward,
and take away the righteousness
of
the
righteous from him!
*
nor strong drink;
and he
shall be filled with
the
glory of the Lord,
even from
his mother's womb.
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And
I
will give unto thee,
and to thy seed after thee,
the land wherein thou art
a stranger,
all the land
of
Canaan,
for an
everlasting possession;
and
I
will be their
God.
And God
said unto
Abraham,
Thou
shalt keep
my covenant
therefore,
thou,
and thy seed
after thee
in their
generations.
*
And many
of
the children
of
Israel shall
he
turn
to the
Lord their God.
**
And he
said unto the woman,
Yea,
hath
God said,
Ye
shall not eat
of
every tree
of
the garden?
**
And he shall
go
before him
in
the spirit
and power
of
Elias,
**
Take ye the sum
of all the
congregation
of
the children
of Israel,
after
their families,
by the house
of
their fathers,
with the number
of their names,
every male
by
their
polls;
From twenty years old
and upward,
all
that are
able
to go
forth
to
war in Israel:
Thou
and Aaron
shall number them
by
their
armies.
And with you
there
shall be a man
of
every
tribe;
every one
head
of the
house
of
his fathers.
And these are
the names
of the
men
that shall
stand with
you . . .
*
When Leah
saw
that she
had left bearing,
she took
Zilpah
her maid,
and gave her Jacob to wife.
And Zilpah
Leah's maid bare
Jacob
a son.
And Leah
said,
A troop cometh:
and she
called
his name
Gad.
*
Of Gad;
Elias-aph
the
son of Deuel.
**
And it came to pass,
when
I,
even
I
Daniel,
had seen the vision,
and sought
for
the meaning,
then,
behold,
there
stood before
me
as the
appearance
of
a man.
And
I
heard a man's voice
between the banks
of Ulai,
which called,
and said,
Gabriel,
make this man
to
understand the vision.
**
And Pharaoh
said
unto Joseph,
In my dream,
behold,
I stood
upon the bank of the
river:
And,
behold,
there
came
up out of
the river seven kine,
fatfleshed
and well favoured;
and they
fed in a meadow:
And,
behold,
seven other kine came up
after them,
poor and very ill favoured
and leanfleshed,
such as
I
never saw in all
the
land of Egypt
for badness:
And the lean
and the ill
favoured kine
did eat up
the
first
seven fat kine:
And when
they
had eaten
them up,
it
could not be known
that
they
had eaten them;
but they
were still
ill favoured,
as at the
beginning.
So
IYEAON
awoke.
**
So he
came near
where
I stood:
and when
he
came,
I
was afraid,
and fell upon
my face:
*
But there
went up a mist from the
earth,
and watered the whole face
of
the ground.
*
but he
said unto me,
Understand,
O
son of man:
for at the time
of
the end
shall be the
vision.
Now
as he
was speaking with me,
I
was
in a deep sleep
on
my face
toward the ground:
but he touched me,
and
set me upright.
And he
said,
Behold,
I
will make
thee know
what shall
be in
the
last end
of the indignation:
for at the time
appointed the end shall
be.
**
to turn
the
hearts
of
the fathers
to the children,
and the
disobedient
to the
wisdom of the just;
to
make ready
a
people
prepared
for
the Lord.
And Zacharias
said
unto the angel,
Whereby shall
I know
this?
for
I am
an old man,
and my wife
well
stricken in years.
And
the angel
answering
said unto
him,
I am Gabriel,
“Gabriel is the alter
the sons of Aaron, established and worshiped in Nineveh,
after “also carried of the vessels of the house of the Lord to
Babylon,
and put them in his temple at Babylon.”
Hence, Gabriel, the appearance of a man.
that stand
in the
presence of God;
and
am
sent to speak unto thee,
and
to shew
thee
these glad tidings.
And,
behold,
thou
shalt be dumb,
and not able to speak,
until the day
that these things
shall
be performed,
because
thou believest
not
my words,
which shall be fulfilled
in
their season.
*
And after those days
his wife
Elisa-bethsheba
conceived,
*
and it shall come to pass,
that every
one
that
findeth
me
shall slay
me.
*
and hid herself
five months,
saying,
Thus hath the Lord dealt
with me
in
the days wherein
he
looked on
me,
to take away
my
reproach among men.
Annas and Caiaphas
being the high priests,
the word
of
God
came unto
Elisha
the son
of
Zacharias
in the
wilderness.
And he
came into all the country
about Jordan,
preaching repentance;
*
The inequity
of
Ephraim is bound up;
his
sin is hid.
The sorrows
of a
travailing
woman
shall come upon
him:
he
is an
unwise son;
for
he
should not stay long
in
the
place
of the
breaking
forth
of
children.
I
will ransom them
from the
power of the grave;
I
will
redeem them from death:
O death,
I
will be
thy
plagues;
O
grave,
I
will be
thy
destruction:
repentance
shall be hid
from
mine
eyes.
*
And he said,
Cursed be Canaan;
a
servant
of servants
shall
he be unto
his brethren.
*
Though
he be
fruitful among his brethren,
an east wind
shall come,
the wind
of
the Lord shall come
up from
the wilderness,
and his
spring shall become dry,
and his
fountain shall be dried up:
he
shall spoil
the treasure
of all
pleasant vessels.
Samaria shall become desolate;
*
but Ruth clave unto
her.
And she
said,
Behold,
thy sister in law
is
gone back unto
her
people,
and unto her
gods:
return thou after
thy sister
in law.
And Ruth said,
Entreat
me not to leave
thee,
or
to return
from
following after thee:
for
whither thou
goest,
I will go;
and
where
thou
lodgest,
I
will lodge:
thy people
shall be
my people,
and thy
God my God:
*
she
shall be called Woman,
because
she
was taken out of Man.
Therefore
shall a man leave his father
and his mother,
and shall cleave
unto his wife:
and they shall be one
flesh.
**
for she
hath rebelled against
her
God:
they
shall fall
by
the sword:
their
infants shall
be
dashed in pieces,
and their workmen
with child
shall be ripped up.
O Israel,
return
unto the Lord
thy God;
for
thou
hast
fallen
by
thine
inequity.
Take with you words,
and turn to
the Lord:
say unto him,
Take away all inequity,
and receive us graciously:
so
will we
render the calves
of
our lips.
*
As it is written in the book
of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying,
The voice
of
one
crying in the wilderness,
Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
Every
valley shall be filled,
and every
mountain
and hill shall
be
brought low;
and the crooked shall
be
made straight,
and the rough ways
shall
be
made
smooth;
And
all flesh
shall see
the
salvation
of
God.
Then said
he to the
multitude
that came forth
to be
anointed
of
him,
O
generation
of
vipers,
who hath warned you
to flee
from the
wrath to come?
Bring forth
therefore
fruits worthy
of
repentance,
**
and the arms
of
his hands
were made
strong
by
the
hands of the mighty
God of Jacob;
(from thence is the
shepherd,
the stone of
Israel:)
*
and begin
not to say
within yourselves,
We
have
Abraham
to
our father:
**
But with thee will
I
establish my covenant;
*
Then
ye
shall answer them,
That the waters
of
Jordan
were cut off
before
the ark
of
the covenant
of
the Lord;
when it passed
over Jordan,
the waters
of
Jordan
were cut off:
*
*
and
these stones
shall
be for
a memorial unto the children
of
Israel for ever.
**
for I
say unto you,
That God
Is
able of
these stones
to
raise up children
unto
Abraham.
*
Moreover
he said,
*
And Terah
lived
seventy years,
and begat Abram,
*
I am
The
God of thy father,
the
God of Abraham,
the
God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob.
*
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees:
every tree therefore
which bringeth not forth good
fruit is hewn down,
and cast into the fire.
And the people asked him,
saying,
What shall we do then?
He answereth
and saith unto them,
He
that
hath two coats,
let him impart
to him that hath none;
and he that hath meat,
let him do likewise.
Then and Satan came also among them to be anointed
and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?
And
he
said
unto them,
Exact
no more
than that
which is
appointed you.
*
And with them,
by their generations,
after the house
of their fathers,
were bands of soldiers
for war,
six and thirty thousand men:
for they had
many wives and sons.
*
And the soldiers likewise demanded
of him,
saying,
And what shall we do?
And he said unto them,
Do violence to no man,
neither accuse any falsely;
and be content with your wages.
And as the people were
in expectation,
and all men mused in their hearts of Elisha ,
whether he were the
Christ, or not;
Elisha answered,
saying unto them all,
I indeed anointed you with water;
but one
mightier than
I
cometh,
the latchet of whose shoes
I am
not worthy to unloose:
he shall bless you
with the
Glory of God
and
with fire:
*
It
is the glory of God to conceal a thing:
but the honour of kings is to search out a
matter.
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